The chickens started laying eggs last week. a couple of fresh eggs for breakfast is a perfect way to start a day at the farm. The chickens spend most of the time indoors where their feed is, plus they don't like the snow. This flock is 1 rooster, 3 retired hens and 2 layer hens.

Tuesday, February 2, 2010

Moo had mastitis and was unable to milk her lambs during her treatment. so, 3 times a day someone had to march up the hill and feed the lambs. here is DorotheaBraemer ( executive director of Squeeky Wheel) nursing our 2 lambs and Andes Sprouts first artist in residence Stefani Bardin.

Andes Sprouts Society

Andes Sprouts Society wishes to exemplify the Catskill Regions cultural heritage of the sprouting farm landscape as well as stimulate biocultural productivity for the new media global community.

Andes Sprouts Society engages in crossover activities of emergent technologies and organic farming. For this starting year, the AS society works toward the exchange of knowledge and labor of urban gardening and field farming, the sustainability of the land and the artists and the international perspective on eco-bio issues.